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  1. Pete in Panama

    True and False Prophets - Just and Honest Determination

    Huh. It's my understanding that a core Baha'i belief is that the Bible is the Word of God. Sure, there are lots of places in the Bible that are hard to understand, I can say that about my text book on differential equations. Can you post some quote from the a Baha'i recognized source that...
  2. Pete in Panama

    True and False Prophets - Just and Honest Determination

    First we got together on the fact that saying that clouds could be-- --and now I'm getting from you that there's only one meaning of what the Bible says. My thinking is that there are many good understandings of what the Bible says but what I can not handle is what appears as contradictions.
  3. Pete in Panama

    True and False Prophets - Just and Honest Determination

    We're not quite communicating here, first what I got from you was a clear definition from the Bible, now we've changed to something else like Marriam-Webster. What I'm getting from you now is a far more flexible understanding based on other unnamed sources. OK, sounds good. Enjoy!
  4. Pete in Panama

    True and False Prophets - Just and Honest Determination

    Thanks for coming back to me on this and my experience is that many share that point of veiw . Two questions. Where did you learn these meanings of those words, did somebody tell you or is this your interpretation/inspiration or something? The other question is what are your thoughts on the...
  5. Pete in Panama

    True and False Prophets - Just and Honest Determination

    NEAT! We both have figured out that the passages in the sacred text have many meanings and it's our job to understand what the Bible says to us now. Can we also agree that the text may have one meaning for one individual at one time, and a different meanting for another person/place/time?
  6. Pete in Panama

    True and False Prophets - Just and Honest Determination

    Sorry about coming in here late but this comment piqued my interest. There are a number of definitions of both "clouds" and "resurrection" but what's important (to me) is what your take is. Could you please tell me what meaning you understand from a passage in the Bible that uses these words?
  7. Pete in Panama

    The List Of Prophecies The Baháʼu'lláh Claimed To Have Fulfilled

    Actually that seems like a fair question, iow "how do you decide which to buy and not buy" but that's only if we want to eschew obfuscation. My interest would be in looking at that list of claims and suggest that we don't have to fixate on what we don't like, but rather we can explore what we...
  8. Pete in Panama

    The List Of Prophecies The Baháʼu'lláh Claimed To Have Fulfilled

    Ah, my bad! What I should have said for better clarity was "That's absolutely true, we're all on our own path. Of course you've been very polite and I've never felt that you've been unseemly, but for the sake of expanding on the things we agree on can we also say that a personal taste...
  9. Pete in Panama

    The List Of Prophecies The Baháʼu'lláh Claimed To Have Fulfilled

    Hello there, I'm glad you're seeing me now! My preference is to keep in touch w/ so many good people here that I know. The trick is to keep good feelings and not get sucked into bad feelings...
  10. Pete in Panama

    The List Of Prophecies The Baháʼu'lláh Claimed To Have Fulfilled

    That's absolutely true, we're all on our own path. Not sure here, but do you agree with me that a personal taste preference for antagonizing and inflicting harm on others is a bad thing?
  11. Pete in Panama

    How can God know both the past and the future of All things from beginning?

    For me the definitions are fairly straightforward. God is reality. We can discuss that further if you want. Time is (from here) is the measured or measurable period during which an action, process, or condition exists or continues. Time began some 13B years ago. The properties of our...
  12. Pete in Panama

    Weird, somehow my gut feeling is that we've met. This is public here but pse email me at...

    Weird, somehow my gut feeling is that we've met. This is public here but pse email me at [email protected] if there's a chance we can set up a voice chat.
  13. Pete in Panama

    Hi there, I got confused w/ whether I already know you or not & now I'm lost. Have we already...

    Hi there, I got confused w/ whether I already know you or not & now I'm lost. Have we already met? I became a Baha'i in California in 1965, went to college, then moved to Panama. Have we met in one of those places?
  14. Pete in Panama

    How can God know both the past and the future of All things from beginning?

    My preference is to avoid saying what God is like and what He's not like because if I did then I'd feel like I'd be putting God in a box. That get's dicey. OK, so we can say that we're different from God but at the same time the scriptures say we were created in God's image: Genesis 1;26 And...
  15. Pete in Panama

    How can God know both the past and the future of All things from beginning?

    The question makes a lot of assumptions that I don't buy into. In the first place, I don't believe the past goes on FOREVER and I don't believe the future goes on FOREVER either. I see all of creation as being finite and bounded, and when I say "I see", I'm talking about physical...
  16. Pete in Panama

    Human vs AI Intelligence

    Aside from the fact that I'm in "North America" (barely), we have no hard numbers on the ages of the Baha'is in the U.S. so any doubts we got are (imho) are useless speculation. Sure I care about the U.S. but I also care about the NSA's of the Ukraine, Botswana, and India. My main focus...
  17. Pete in Panama

    Human vs AI Intelligence

    You may be hanging around a lot of old Baha'is in the U.S. but my community in Panama is almost all youth. We spend out time scrambling to furnish houseing/meals for overnights/conferences + transportation for other meetups. This afternoon (for example) I spend a few hours helping an...
  18. Pete in Panama

    my participation here is selective and sparse, but if there's something I'm doing that u find...

    my participation here is selective and sparse, but if there's something I'm doing that u find interesting it'd be fun to chat. Also, you can find me on usmessageboard.com, politicalforum.com, and debatepolitics.com tho my participation on those forums is also becoming more selective and sparse...
  19. Pete in Panama

    not much going on here, but I do like to hang around the RF when they say something interesting...

    not much going on here, but I do like to hang around the RF when they say something interesting. Just click on "Latest Activity" above to see what kind of trouble I've been getting into...
  20. Pete in Panama

    Human vs AI Intelligence

    When you say "human augmentation" the impression I'm getting is that we're talking about some kind of improvement. To date, any change we make to the human body is not quite as good as what the original could have been --be it a prosthetic leg or false teeth. Not what I'd call "augmentation"...
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